Short Story: The Boy Next Door

Dr. Balesh Jindal narrates a heart-wrenching story of young love and how caste tears the lovers apart.

It was the year 1990. 

A wonderful year, specially for all below twenty and nearly. 

Ramu’s store was literally a hole in the wall, where he curled his well-oiled mustache and sometimes surreptitiously his hand would find its way near his groin where he would scratch his balls. 

Gudiya, his sister, was a wild spirited girl. She wanted to ride her brother’s new bike, run wild in the farm nearby, and look at the boy next door. If she stood on tiptoes, she could see him every time he left the house. 

He looked good from her window.